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Persons / Plekhanov Georgy Valentinovich public figure
Plekhanov G.V. (1856-1918), revolutionist

PLEKHANOV Georgy Valentinovich (1856-1918), political figure, publicist. Upon graduating from Voronezh Military School (1873), entered Konstantinovsky Military College

1917

30 January - 8 March. Andrei Bely, a poet and prosaist, stayed at R.V. Ivanov-Razumnik, a literary critic and publicist, in Tsarskoye Selo. 4 February. Niktopolion Svyatsky, a poet and warrior, died in Tsarskoye Selo
Source: Tsarskoe Selo

Admiralteisky District

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Cherny Peredel, revolutionary organizations

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First All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies

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Ginzburg I.Y., (1859-1939), sculptor

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House of Plekhanov, department of Russian Science Library

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Kazanskaya Street

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Kazansky Bridge

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Kazansky Demonstrations

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Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis

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Lunacharsky A.V. (1875-1933), revolutionary, statesman

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Mir Bozhy (God's World), journal, 1892-1906

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Monumental Propoganda Plan (monuments)

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Nekrasov N. A. (1821-1877), poet

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Plekhanov State Mining Institute, St. Petersburg

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Russian National Library

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Vasileostrovsky District

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Zasulich V. I. (1849-1919) revolutionary

ZASULICH Vera Ivanovna (1849-1919, Petrograd), a revolutionary, literary critic, and publicist. Educated in a women’s boarding school in Moscow, she came to St. Petersburg in 1868 to join revolutionary circles

Zemlya i Volya (Land and Liberty) of 1870s

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